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ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual
1.0 ATTO FastStream Offers Data Protection
The ATTO FastStream™ Storage Controller is an ideal solution for the cost sensitive demands of today’s
networked storage environments, offering great performance, OS independence, simplified management, and
RAID protection for all of your critical data.
Adding RAID ensures your data is protected without
compromising performance. The ATTO FastStream is
a high performance RAID storage appliance which can
be seamlessly integrated into a storage environment
without regard to any particular manufacturer, type of
drive, capacity or speed.
ATTO FastStream RAID controllers are ideally suited
for bandwidth intensive applications such as digital
film, video and audio as well as medical imaging,
digital prepress and disk to disk backup.
While RAID improves data accessibility and reliability
during normal operations, you still need a good
backup strategy for long-term protection of your data.
The ATTO FastStream is available in an industry
standard rack mount 1U enclosure.

FastStream 5000 Series features

• Industry standard rack mount enclosure
• The ATTO ExpressNAV™ browser-based
storage manager simplifies configuration,
management and navigation. Supports Internet
Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers
• Capable of measuring performance during
normal operation and during the drive
initialization process
• Phone Home error notification automatically
generates an Email alert in the event of a failure
• SpeedRead option: data stored in cache
memory for optimal performance when running
video playback and other applications which
access data sequentially
• Field updateable firmware with the ability to save
configuration settings for easy field replacement
• OS independent enabling easy integration into a
current infrastructure
• Includes two 4-Gigabit LC SFP
• Supports booting from a SAN in Windows®
environment to consolidate resources, minimize
equipment costs and centralize the boot process
• 256 MB ECC cache memory
• Up to 480 MB/sec performance
• RoHS compliant

RAID protection features

• All models: hardware DVRAID™, RAID Level 0,
1, 4, 5, 1+0 and JBOD, all user configurable
• RAID Level 40, 50 using ATTO Express
Power Center software
• RAID Level 6 supported in FastStream SC
5500 model
• N-way mirroring
• Global Hot Spares to ensure continuous
operation if a drive fails. The Hot Spare
automatically comes on-line and rebuild starts if
a disk failure is detected
• Automatic rebuild of RAID groups and
changeable Rebuild Priority keep the system
operational if a drive fails
• Drive partitioning allows you to slice storage
as needed
• Drive initialization and verification feature
identifies drives with soft errors or
performance issues

Audio/video features

• DVRAID provides 12 streams of SD video and
dual streams of HD with Alpha channel titles
• Managed Latency for small transfers provides
parity RAID protection and remote editing
access to support editing up to 192 tracks of
audio in intense production environments
• Support for video on demand
• Support for multiple ProTools sessions

Additional FastStream 5300 features

• 2 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel host interfaces
• 2 Ultra320 SCSI device high speed connections
backward compatible with Ultra160 devices
• Supports up to 32 disk drives